You love cygwin but you are not a fan of command line text editor, you would love to have advanced features with a beautiful GUI (search ad replace, monitor, color, etc..).

In short terms, you want to use a windows text editor with cygwin !

How to do it easily :

Update your ./.bashrc file and add this alias

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alias edit="cygstart /cygdrive/c/apps/Notepad++/notepad++.exe "$(cygpath -w "$1")""

• cygstart starts the windows programm
• cygpath transform the uri to a windows path

dont forget to restart cygwin or source your bashrc and here we go!

Have fun!

Do you know knowledgeblackbelt.com ? 

It is  a community website about java eco system and more, where you can learn, take courses or exam. All of this is performed in a community way. each item (course or exam) cost points and you can earn points by contributing.

How can you do that? You have plenty of ways, you can write exam question, course content or  inserting references from your blog or from anywhere (see the full details of contribution possibilities here).

Of course it cannot replace real experience on project but reviewing technologies and passing exams allows you to keep you memory up to date.

And as I finally have some spare time and I need to refresh my memory, I need you to give me some point by going to see my knowledge black belt profile...

Thanks...

A very interesting article about the Automatic Resource Management (ARM) and the AutoCloseable Interface by Sal Pece and Cameron McKenzie.

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TheServerSide has been digging into the new Java 7 features, and trying to provide some thorough and informative tutorials on how the various language enhancements introduced in Java 7 work. In this tutorial we expand on our initial look at the new try-with-resources syntax.

   http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=63533

“Industrialisation”, un mot qu’on entend sur toutes les lèvres lorsqu’on parle de développement logiciel. La forge logicielle est devenue un enjeu clé pour structurer les pratiques de développement et fournir un cadre de travail productif. Si Maven est quasiment incontournable, que Git fait beaucoup parler de lui, et que l’intégration continue devient une pratique courante, la forge logicielle ne se limite pas au simple build et peut accompagner les développeurs bien au delà de la simple compilation – à condition de bien maîtriser l’assemblage de nos outils ! ...

La suite ici : http://blog.ippon.fr/2011/09/06/ippevent-du-2209-la-forge-logicielle-cloudbees-inscriptions-ouvertes/